Final Major Project - FP6005

Final Evaluation . For my final response to my Final Major Project, I decided to focused on the themes of portraiture, self-portraiture, and documentary photography, creating a series of work that I felt would depict the themes of gender identity and expression as well as Transgender lives and struggles, specifically my own. I decided to focusing on these themes and styles of photography through newly created images as well as found imagery of me as a child and teenager. I felt that by focusing on this idea for my Final Major Project I could potentially add my own personal insight into the Transgender life and the experiences people like me have even in our personal life when coming to terms with our gender identity and expression and figuring out who we are. For me that was shown through expressing and presenting myself as male as a child through more masculine things like wearing football kits, participating in sports, having my hair cut short. Then when I was a teenager, I started...

FINAL MAJOR PROJECT PROPOSAL   Student Name: Tyler Joshua Fowler   Course/ Year/Module: BA Hons Photography - Year 3/Level 6 - FP6005 Final Major Project   Student Number: K1709045       Working Title ‘This Is Me’       ·        Summary My idea for my Final Major Project was to create a series of ten photographs, both newly created and found imagery, based around portrait, self-portrait, and documentary photography, all chosen and created specifically to document and create a narrative based on my own experiences as a Transgender male and my own struggles with gender expression and accepting myself whilst growing up. I decided to create my project in this way as I planned to create this work as a form of documentation, almost like a photo diary, depicting what it was like for me growing u...

Editing Process. For my response to the final major project and my chosen themes of portraiture, self-portraiture, and documentary photography, I decided to focus the majority of my editing processes on my uses of the formal elements of lighting, shapes, tones, and colour in order to create a series of self-portraiture and found imagery photographs within my home environment. This would link to my research into the contemporary and historical photographers such as Del LaGrace Volcano, Catherine Opie, Lia Clay Miller, and Claude Cahun whose works also focus on the theme of portraiture, and sometimes self-portraiture photography whilst also focusing on their use of colour, lighting, tones, and the use of studio and external backgrounds to emphasize their sitter within the image. A lot of my editing processes and techniques for this series of photographic responses will mostly be digital through the use of Adobe Photoshop. However, I intend to keep the majority of my editing techniqu...

Chosen Photographs Analysis. In response to the theme of portraiture, self-portraiture, and documentary photography and Trans lives and experiences and the LGBTQ+, I decided to create a series of photographs in my home environment and combine them with found imagery (photographs that were taken when I was a child and teenager), focusing on my use of close-up and mid-shot camera angles and compositions in order to focus the main part of my images solely on my chosen sitter, in this case myself. By creating my series of in this way I feel like I have been able to create a timeline and narrative within my photographs correlating to my chosen themes of focus and my own issues and struggles with gender identity and expression as Trans male. I feel that by creating this timeline I have been able to accurate create a series of ten photographic images that have documented the expression of my gender identity and the process it has taken me to finally be comfortable and accepting of who I am ...

  Chosen Photographs.

  Sitter's head tilted too far upwards. Don't use  Use this photograph to combine with images of my younger brother and me.  don't use this photo due to reflections better composition - use this photograph within FMP. too far to the left. shows too much of the face to be used for the photo idea I had in mind. Could possibly be cropped however?  Don't use - too out of focus!! Too far left and up Could potentially use this photograph for my final major project outcome Test out this photograph to see which composition I like better - this close-up one or the wider composition.  Crop this photograph to focus in on the main image.